[G4] Newbie wireless question(s)

[Snoke Jay S NPRI]

I use the Apple Airport Base Station because it is a wireless hub. ;o)  oh, and it didn't cost me anything - my employer paid for it so I could take my TiPB home and have access to work via VPN ;o)
on my home network, I have an old beige G3 updated to a G4 (via ZIF), an original clamshell (portable toilet seat? ;o) Blueberry iBook, a 450MHz TiPB, and my work TiPB...since my beige is running OS X, I have the best of all filesharing capabilities, in case someone needs to bring a PC laptop in...
Jay Snoke


> Snoke Jay S NPRI wrote:
> > here's how I have mine set up...
> > I have the cable modem connected to my airport base station.  for wired computers, I have the base station connected to a small hub and the wired computers connected to the hub.  for wireless, I have airport cards in my laptops.
> > I've set up the airport base station to DHCP all TCP/IP addresses to all computers on my home network.
> > does that answer your question?
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> That's almost the same as how I set up my network :-)
> T1 line connected to E-Tech ADSL modem/router/WAP/4 port switch --> 
> Amigo (aka E-Tech) 8 port switch --> several PCs and Macs and one Cat5 
> cable to another E-Tech 5 port switch to the living room downstairs.
> 
> Now on topic I use the WAP for my clamshell iBook. It has an Airport 
> card installed, even works with the beta of Panther. You can also buy an 
> Orinoco Gold or Silver card for a PC  if you're going to use an Apple 
> laptop, it works with the Airport set up utility in OS 9. For OS X you 
> need an open source driver.
> 
> For the rest I agree with JJ and Sandor. Definitely a router. I don't 
> know if the E-Tech brand is available over there, but I really recommend 
> it. I wanted to buy the Linksys 802.11b or g equivalent first because 
> that's what the most Mac people recommend, but I got a good price on the 
> E-Tech.
> 
> Didn't know that the 'Linksys "wireless G" PCI card adapter' works with 
> the Mac, which OS are you using Sandor?
> Is this the WMP54G (URL below)?
> 
> For networking them together you don't need software at all if you're 
> running Jaguar, because the SAMBA protocol is built-in to connect to PCs.
> You indeed need Dave software if you're running OS 9.x.
> BTW if you're running OS X 10.1 I believe you also need Dave.
> Isn't there an option in NT which can emulate AppleShare?
> IIRC we used that option several years ago when we had an NT server here 
> at work (the damn thing crashed several times a day, arrgh....)
> 
> URLz:
> Linksys 802.11b (BEFW11S4): 
> <http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=544>
> 
> Linksys 802.11g (WRT54G): 
> <http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=577>
> 
> Linksys g-adapter:
> <http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=36&prid=520>
> 
> E-Tech:
> http://www.e-tech.nu. It's in Dutch, but you can translate it here:
> <http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html>
> 
> Also Proxim formerly Farallon makes b/g Wifi hardware and they seem to 
> support the Mac aswell.
> http://www.proxim.com
> 
> HTH,
> Marc
> 
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